Landlines: The No 1 Sunday Times bestseller about a thousand-mile journey across Britain from the author of The Salt Path (Raynor Winn, 3)

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Moth is not quite as well as he was when we finished walking that path last year. It is probably getting towards time for us to go for another walk.” She smiles softly. “But he really is in much better health than we could have even hoped for.” Nature was my safe place': Raynor Winn on homelessness and setting off on a 630-mile walk". the Guardian. 6 December 2018 . Retrieved 28 September 2022. This is the third in a series of books which started with 'The Salt Path'. In that bestselling memoir, Raynor Winn recounted how she and her husband, Moth, decided to walk the South West Coast Path after the loss of their home and livelihood and with him having received the diagnosis of a terminal condition. That walk proved a life-saver for both of them and here she describes how Moth still needs to keep walking.

We got down into the glen bottom and managed to get across the river which was rising as we were crossing it. It was raining so hard. It was pouring down off the mountainside like a solid sheet waterfall. This river, that would normally have been a foot deep, was rising to thigh level.” A captivating reflection on nature and the lines that divide and shape countries and people * Sainsbury's Magazine * Barnes, Dan (21 June 2023). "Gillian Anderson, Jason Isaacs filming Salt Path in Chepstow". South Wales Argus . Retrieved 30 June 2023. Raynor Winn’s The Salt Path was published in 2018 to critical acclaim and went on to become one of the most successful non-fiction books of the year. It’s a difficult work to pin down – part memoir, part treatise on the English landscape, part travelogue – it has at its heart the poignant journey undertaken by the author and her terminally ill husband, Moth. Just after Moth’s diagnosis, the couple were made homeless and decided on impulse to walk the South West Coast Path in its 630-mile entirety. The resulting book is a written record of a journey that was both physical and emotional, by turns lyrical, angry and sad, and always touched with hope and humour.

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With Moth's health declining again, Raynor contemplates embarking on another epic walk. It has proved miraculous in the past, but she wonders if it will continue to offer respite from the relentless progress of his illness. They awoke the next day to find a lull in the rain. “We realised all the deer had come down because they too were looking for somewhere dry,” says Raynor. “There was a group of hinds near the tent and over by a boulder, further away, was one stag standing on his own. Homeless couple say walking South West Coast path was 'life-changing' ". ITV News. 20 April 2018 . Retrieved 15 September 2022.

And the Sun Shines Now: How Hillsborough and the Premier League Changed Britain by Adrian Tempany was shortlisted for the Orwell prize Fans of The Salt Path will love this moving continuation of Raynor and her husband Moth's journey . . . Alongside beautiful nature writing, there are thought-provoking observations on our countryside and the threat it is under * Good Housekeeping * And it happens again. Moth improves with the exercise, although not in a straight progression. There are peaks and valleys, both physically and in spirit, and there are times when both wonder if what they are attempting is really worth the difficulties involved. The contrast between the Cape Wrath Trail and the West Highland Way couldn’t have been more profound. The Cape Wrath Trail is what it says in the guidebook: remote and isolated. It is a walk through the wilderness where you might go for days without seeing anyone. Spears’ vulnerability shines through as she describes her painful journey from vulnerable girl to empowered woman.In her bestselling debut, The Salt Path, Raynor Winn walked several hundred miles round England’s South West Coast Path with her husband, Moth, sleeping wild and virtually penniless after their home was lost to bailiffs. Worse, Moth had been diagnosed with corticobasal degeneration, a brain disease for which there was neither cure nor treatment. And yet, as Winn recalls in the opening of this, her second book, as they walked the clifftop paths from Minehead to Polruan, “he’d grown stronger. The fog in his brain had cleared, his movements had become surer, easier to control. Why, why, why had that happened?”

Winn also writes about nature, homelessness and wild camping. [12] Her second book The Wild Silence was published by Michael Joseph (a subsidiary of Penguin Books) in September 2020. [10] [13] It was shortlisted for the 2021 Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing . [14] Raynor Winn has done it again. She's achieved a miracle, defying all odds and walking 1,000 miles with her beloved husband Moth. But she has also given her vast army of fans - both armchair hikers and the real thing - another wondrous book, full of compassion, humour, insights, closeness to nature and true, bloody-minded grit. An inspiration. -- Isabella Tree, author of Wilding As is so often the case in folk music, there are political undertones to many of these songs, not least the short snippet Cornish Lads are Fishermen, which became an anthem for both fishermen and tin miners as their livelihoods were stripped away. Winn’s commentary sets the scene in a brisk and insightful way and brings the story up to date with observations of young, unemployed men meeting in the queue for the foodbank. As well as a portrait of a telepathic marriage of true minds, and a snapshot of a fretful island, this is a soaring lament and a tub-thumping tirade - for all that is being lost, for all that may yet be saved * Telegraph *Eindelijk was daar dan het derde deel van de tocht van Moth en Ray. Wederom de prachtige, heldere en beeldende taal. Het voelt alsof je deel bent van de wandeling. Een aantal elementen werden vaak herhaald (Ray’s schuldgevoel, Moths langzame herstel, het thee drinken, tóch als maar verder lopen), waardoor het soms wat voorspelbaar werd. Ik miste de onverwachte wending en / of nieuwe gebeurtenis in dit boek een beetje.

Simply not the same for me. Great to hear of Moth's recovery. Nice to hear about so many places in the UK. Good ideas for walking. Not good to hear one-sided views on politics and evolution. There is incredible kindness right through Scotland. The people were so welcoming and helpful. Kindness that came from nowhere and it was wonderful.” If you enjoyed The Salt Path . . . you'll love Raynor Winn's latest book, Landlines * Yours Magazine * After completing the Cape Wrath Trail, you might think that doing another walk would be the last thing on their minds. Yet, in Fort William, the couple found themselves – quite by accident – at the bench which marks the end/beginning of the West Highland Way. Walking the 320-kilometre Cape Wrath Trail through the north of Scotland looked like an achievable undertaking for Raynor Winn and her husband, Moth, who at the time was suffering from a degenerative illness. The plans for the jaunt, after all, had been laid out during a warm Cornish spring, when the hardships and perils of what’s considered to be one of Britain’s most challenging long-distance walks appeared remote.

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It was Moth. He had somehow passed her on the path. Raynor felt a strength and sureness in his grip that she hadn’t since they forded the glacial meltwaters of an Icelandic river a few years earlier.